138 INDEX. 



Fertilizers — Conchtded. page 



Muriate compared with sulphate of potash in connection with sulphate of 



ammonia for corn 22 



Natural phosphates compared with each other and with acid phosphate, . 11 



Special corn fertilizer v. fertilizer richer in potash, 12 



Sulphate of iron as a fertilizer 27 



Trade values of fertilizer ingredients, 112 



"Wool washings as fertilizer, 126 



Fire blight, 60 



Formaldehyde gas as fungicide, 49 



Geranium, disease of, 67 



Grasses, variety tests of, 29 



Grass land, manuring of, 26 



Horticulturist, report of, 71 



Hydrocyanic gas as fungicide 49 



Idaho field or coffee pea, 36 



Meteorologist, report of, 45 



Millets, 31 



Panicum crus-galli, 32 



Panicum italicum, 33 



Panicum miliaceum, 32 



Nitrogen : 



Leguminous crops as nitrogen gatherers, 19 



Nitragin, 26 



Relative value of different manures furnishing nitrogen 21 



Potato crop (1897), causes of failure, 52 



Potatoes, variety tests of, . . . 28 



Poultry experiments, 37 



Condition powder for producing eggs 38 



Cut bone v. animal meal for producing eggs, 41 



Clover rowen v. cabbage for producing eggs, 42 



Quince rust, 61 



Saccaline 35 



Soil tests, 9 



With corn, 10 



With potatoes, 10 



Soya beans, 33 



Spraying as preventive of diseases, 50 



Stumps, reputed method of destroying 37 



Sycamore, leaf blight of, 68 



Tobacco, field experiments with, 128 



Treasurer's report 7 



Winter vetch 36 



